LE:NOTRE Budapest 2005 Working Groups session Bachelor & Master Outputs Year 3: Bachelor Programmes Nature of Bachelor Programmes (Dublin Descriptors) Range of different possibilities Structure (3 year, 4 year?) Content (Landscape Architecture, Landscape Studies, Landscape Planning, Landscape Design, Landscape Management) Employability of graduates Accreditation Criteria Internal requirements: Facilities; Resources; Specialist teaching; etc.

LE:NOTRE Budapest 2005 Working Group session Masters Outputs Year 3: Masters Programmes & Continuing Education Entry criteria Attractiveness of courses (Viability) Types of Masters Programme (Structures) Professional (direct follow-on from Bachelor L.Arch. – leading to professional recognition) Conversion (following from a relevant Bachelor – leading to professional recognition) Research (M.Phil. – Short research degree) Top-up (One year – Specialist topic – not leading to professional recognition) Mode of delivery – Full-time or Part-time or distance learning - international? Subject areas (differentiated or focussed) & contents Types of Universities in which programmes are offered? Coordination / Regional cooperation? Continuing Education Topics (Partner organisations’ inputs?) Structure of courses (Modular Masters?)

LE:NOTRE Budapest 2005 WG session bach & master Steps to be taken Goal: to give advice from the general viewpoint to the development of Bachelor and Master Courses Making use of available material Brainstorm: Saturday session Defining issues in detail (smaller groups) in Sunday Session & reporting back First draft: send out for comment to all present (list of names) by & short survey on main question Commenting by by group members (3 weeks) Second draft by Diedrich Bruns & Jeroen de Vries Discussion in Steering Committee (end of June in DK) Final draft for comment on the website (July 2005) Final Output Report (September 2005)

LE:NOTRE Budapest 2005 WG Session bachelor master Goal: to give advice from the general viewpoint to the development of Bachelor and Master Courses Material –Overview of courses and course length - by Ian Jorgensen – –Presentation on Bachelor and Master Programmes and General Directive - Ellen Fetzer & Robert Holden –Dublin Descriptors First Round –What are main issues to be addressed for bachelor courses from your point of view? Second Round –What are main issues to be addressed for master courses from your point of view –Written contribution Issues to be discussed in second session on Sunday of this working group & how to proceed.

LE:NOTRE Budapest 2005 WG Session master Groups relation to Bologna, Legislation, National Associations intake of students, selection, conversion courses international exchange, intensive programmes, combined European programmes Content of programmes, are bachelors employable, internships Flexibility and specialisation Titles of degrees

LE:NOTRE Budapest 2005 WG Session master relation to Bologna, Legislation, National Associations 1.Paper on comparability of courses 2.Paper views on the requirements of National Associations and bodies of recognition (eg Architektenkammer) in respect of educational issues for the title of LA (should one have a master degree to enter the profession) (collaboration with EFLA on General Directive) 3.is professional practice experience (either within the course or outside a course) an entry requirement? - EFLA 4.Paper on people of all countries how the respond (universities or national legislation) to the Bologna agreement

LE:NOTRE Budapest 2005 WG Session master intake of students, selection, conversion courses intake of students by individual decision & special assessment defining core competencies for bachelor courses so that other schools can take them in a master (threshold level) there is a question whether internship time (type just going out, or having to meet special requirements for learning outcomes and an examen) compensate for study time conversion is still open: how can we promote them (Robert Holden: in Greenwich 2 year) one type for science based courses, one type for design based courses (types conversion master, conversion course before the master) maximum needed time (1/2 year Sweden) TR 3 master (including conversion time) Gen: in relation to the intake terms for the master. Issue: to get advised on is minimum and maximum ECTS conversion time.

LE:NOTRE Budapest 2005 WG Session master international exchange, intensive programmes, combined European programmes 1.Recommendation ECLAS/LENOTRE have a flexible policy to support exchanges. 2.Policy of 300 ECTS professional training (apart from the subdivision) because this promotes the flexibility in the program as a whole 3.Policy that training can be part of the education (the exchange programme might involve some form of training) 4.Developing an European international semester (30 ECTS) for LA 5.Defining a time frame for developing this policies (2 and 5 year) 6.Encouraging an Intensive Exchange programme of 2 weeks 7.Support alternative summer courses, how do we finance them? And ECTS for students.

LE:NOTRE Budapest 2005 WG Session master content of programmes, are bachelors employable, interships 1.The bachelor and master should be possible to follow separately 2.How to combine in bachelor studies the two tasks: prepare for professional skills and to prepare for masters 3.Advice on: what is the level and types of bachelor programmes and tasks that should be accomplished. 4.The balance between planning, design and the technical knowledge in the bachelor level. 5.Internships: what type of internships should there be used (indicate them with the requirements). Duration, in or outside the curriculum. 6.How to organise in the internship exchange? Financing of exchange? Leonardo, IAESTE (procedure)

LE:NOTRE Budapest 2005 WG Session master Flexibility and specialisation List of subjects for minors that can be part of the LA programme Possibility of promoting landscape architecture by offering minors. Minimum of free choice (eg 15% in Dublin) in the bachelor (master too??) Difference of curriculum between schools, open for variation in courses, defining a minimum for the core courses of the degree (in ECTS?) Masters courses for research preparation (this might be the bases for an international masters) Recommendations on the content of masters in order to prepare for a research orientation. Models of well defined bachelors in relation to broad masters and vice versa. Survey on how

LE:NOTRE Budapest 2005 WG Session master Titles of degrees How many bachelor titles are there, can we reduce them in order to make it better to understand Bachelor of engineering (technology), of landscape architecture, of science, of arts (in landscape architecture) Can we define these in order to make them comparable Motives: status, comparability, stressing the profiles of schools Admission for masters: what should one require competences (many types of conversion courses and way the are assessed. Title after the masters: MSc and MLA, MA in LA, MPh. Also some examples of post graduate courses On what moment one should enter the profession (some harmonization on requirements)

LE:NOTRE Budapest 2005 WG session bach & master Steps to be taken Goal: to give advice from the general viewpoint to the development of Bachelor and Master Courses Making use of available material Brainstorm: Saturday session Defining issues in detail (smaller groups) in Sunday Session & reporting back First draft: send out for comment to all present (list of names) by & short survey on main question Commenting by by group members (3 weeks) Second draft by Diedrich Bruns & Jeroen de Vries Discussion in Steering Committee (end of June in DK) Final draft for comment on the website (July 2005) Final Output Report (September 2005)